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NASB | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God]. |
Subject: Does God endorse polygamy? |
Bible Note: Please allow me to state my position: The scriptures make no prohibition against a man having more than one wife. That is my statement in relation to polygamy. Some men were given one, some were given many. The order of their birth forces no more emphasis of law upon the rest of mankind than does the fact that they also experienced personal, physical and/or visionary visitation from the Lord and/or His angels. Here is what I find to be about as anti-Christ as could ever be demonstrated by our multitudes of institutional "churches": I know of couples who are married, but without the "benefit" of that piece of paper from the state. There is no secular law that states that a married couple must have a "license", and yet most of our institutional churches will definitively declare that such a couple is "living in sin". How anyone can, with a clear conscience, go along with this foolishness is quite beyond my comprehension. Perhaps they are "sinning" against the "social sensibilities" of those "church" members and their leadership, but they are not living in sin as God defined sin. However, when they refer to "sin", we both know to what level of sin they are referring. THEN, these SAME people are going to turn around and apply this same level of reasoning against polygamy? It then makes sense to me why my opponents resort to the more base of tactics do defend their lost cause. If they believe that their understanding of non-existent state law can define sin, in spite of God's Law, then it comes as no surprise that they then feel that they have license to resort to mostly non-existent state laws as defining polygamy to be sin in relation to God's express word. This is what I have termed as being a system of "socially engineered theology." May the Lord bless you and yours, justme. Yours in Christ Jesus Don Dean |